They've been grooming Douglas Costa and Kingsley Coman to replace them both--when your key players are as injured as the Sunshine Boys have been, it makes for a shitty European campaign. I was surprised they managed to come back against Juve.

The USA has had some success on the World stage. The 2002 team was particularly good and should have beaten Germany in the semis, but for Ollie Kahn's brilliance. For a country as big as the US is, there's no reason you shouldn't have a top 3 team by this point, except for the fact that more money needs to be spent on training, development, scouting, etc.